The Dogmas of DJ Harvey

"The Keith Richards of dance music" and Venice Beach’s resident legend, DJ Harvey, graced The Standard, Downtown LA with his presence to share his musings on everything under the LA sun.

LA

“It has everything one might desire. People say, ‘You can surf in the morning, snowboard in the afternoon, and get a half-decent sandwich on the way there.’”

Threesomes

“Well, someone’s always missing out in a threesome. You can
never quite tell whose hand is on your ass.”

Email

“Let’s change that to ‘she-mail.’ I’ve never sent an email
in my life.”

Fame

“I don’t consider myself really famous. Fame doesn’t really
achieve very much. You can be famous as a murderer. You can be famous for being
an asshole. You can be famous for doing nothing. So fame in itself doesn’t pay
your rent, it doesn’t help you in your relationships…people aspire to be
famous, and then once they are, they usually regret it. It can be a major pain
in the ass. Fame is a double-edged sword.

On the way here I noticed a van that said ‘Swifty the
Penguin’, and we thought ‘How cool is Swifty the Penguin!’ And the guy wound
down the window and goes, ‘Are you the legendary DJ Harvey?’ You never can really
tell when fame will strike.”

Cocaine

“A thing of the past.”

California

“It has the only things that matter: the tech industry, the
porn industry, marijuana, and oil.”

EDM Culture

“I know very little about it. It’s like asking me about
country western culture. I’m sure it’s great.”

Driving

“I never learned to drive a car. I ride motorcycles.”

Trump

“Ronald McDonald. They’re kind of the same person, aren’t
they?”

Exercise

“I don’t go to the gym, I go to the john.”

Reality TV

“It’s unreal, isn’t it? I love it. I watch all the Real Housewives, Shahs of Sunset, I steer away from the Big Brother and Survivor
type of things. The bitchier the better, I say.”

Monogamy

“It’s overrated.”

Millennials

“Rub ointment on them and they’ll go away.”

Smoking

“I’ve really enjoyed smoking for 30 years, but I don’t do it
anymore, and I don’t have a problem with it. Marijuana is a plan made by the
man to stop people from having a revolution. If you’re stoned out of your mind
on the couch, you’re not active. It’s the exact opposite of what righteous
smokers think it is.”

Dating

“I’m going steady at the moment [with a woman], but I would
quite like to have a Grindr account to see how many men like me.”

Ecstasy

“Sometime around 1990, ecstasy became a pill, and I stopped
taking it then.”

The Chainsmokers

“They’re a sad little duo, aren’t they?”

DJs

“Isn’t everybody one?”

Juicing

“I’m all for it.”

Endurance

“The longest I’ve DJ’d was something like three days. I
lived off Turkish delights and Coca-Cola.”

Sexuality

“Whatever angle you take to dangle should be celebrated and
embraced.”